Azure is an open and flexible cloud platform that enables you to quickly build, deploy and manage applications across a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters. You can build applications using any language, tool or framework. And you can integrate your public cloud applications with your existing IT environment. Azure provides automatic OS and service patching, built in network load balancing and resiliency to hardware failure. It enables you to easily scale your applications to any size. Azure is a fully automated self-service platform that allows you to provision resources within minutes. Elastically grow or shrink your resource usage based on your needs.

What is Microsoft Azure?

What is Azure? In short, it's Microsoft's cloud platform: a growing collection of integrated services — compute, storage, data, networking, and app — that help you move faster, do more, and save money. But that's just scratching the surface. Here's what else Azure is ...

It's IaaS + PaaS

Azure is the only major cloud platform ranked by Gartner as an industry leader for both infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS). This powerful combination of managed and unmanaged services lets you build, deploy, and manage applications any way you like for unmatched productivity.

It's hybrid ready

Some cloud providers make you choose between your datacenter and the public cloud. Not Azure. Its enterprise-proven hybrid cloud solutions give you the best of both worlds, expanding your IT options without added complexity. With Azure, data storage, backup, and recovery become more efficient and economical. It's also easier to build applications that span both on-premises and the cloud.

It's open and flexible

Azure supports any operating system, language, tool, and framework — from Windows to Linux, SQL Server to Oracle, C# to Java. It puts the best of Windows and Linux ecosystems at your fingertips, so you can build great applications and services that work with every device.

It's economical and scalable

Azure can quickly scale up or down to match demand, so you only pay for what you use. Per-minute billing and a commitment to match competitor prices for popular infrastructure services like compute, storage and bandwidth means you're always getting unbeatable price for performance.

It's everywhere

Azure runs on a growing global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters across 19 regions, giving you a wide range of options for running applications and ensuring your customers always get great performance. Azure is the first multinational cloud provider in mainland China and is continuing to expand to new regions around the globe.

What you can do with Azure

Build infrastructure

Provision Windows and Linux Virtual Machines and applications in minutes. Use the same virtual machines and management tools in Azure that you use on-premises.

Develop modern applications

Build and deploy a wide variety of modern applications for Android, iOS, and Windows that take full advantage of the cloud — including web, mobile, media and line-of-business solutions. Automatically scale up and down to meet any need.

Websites | Mobile Services | Media Services | Integration | Dev-Test

Gain insights from data

Azure provides managed SQL and NoSQL data services and built-in support for gaining insights from your data. Leverage the full power of SQL Server in the cloud and use HDInsight to build Hadoop clusters to analyse data.

SQL Database | HDInsight | Machine Learning | Stream Analytics

Manage identity and access

Manage user accounts, synchronise with existing on-premises directories, and get single sign on across Azure, Office 365 and hundreds of popular software-as-a-service applications including Salesforce, DocuSign, Google Apps, Box, Dropbox, and more.

Active Directory | Multi-Factor Authentication

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